‘Fill the Floor’ of a Bali hotel with 20 friends
Hotels.com® has launched its “Fill the Floor” competition. The competition gives travelers from 10 Asia Pacific countries the chance to win the ultimate holiday worth up to S$20,000, with up to 19 friends or family members.For the lucky winner from Singapore, the once-in-a-lifetime prize includ [...]
Air China teams up with Abacus in expansion strategy
Air China has upgraded its reservation inventory participation system to Direct Connect Availability (DCA) by Abacus International, and embarked on a three-year marketing programme with Abacus as part of its expansion strategy.Abacus DCA connectivity is a highly evolved system interface, which ena [...]
Japan’s Solare sets sights on rate and inventory parity with new connectivity
Solare Hotels & Resorts has become the first hotel group in Japan to be able to manage and control its rate and inventory distribution with both domestic and international OTAs.The breakthrough comes after it and its technology partner, Trust International, implemented a direct interface with wi [...]
AirAsia’s profits drop, hit by fuel costs
Low cost carrier AirAsia posted a 47.6% decline in net profit to RM104.25 million (US35 million) for the second quarter ended June 30, compared to the same period a year ago on higher fuel costs.Revenue for the quarter under review increased 15.2% to RM1.08 billion compared to the quarter a year a [...]
Website not a low fare channel, says Air China
Air China does not see its website as a channel to dump low fares; rather it sees it as a way for the airline to strengthen its relationship with customers.Fajin Hu, the airline' s senior manager of e-commerce, said that although the majority of air fares placed on its website were lower than those [...]
Wego.com puts power in hoteliers’ hands with new service
Travel comparison site Wego.com today launched a new editing tool as well as a Premium Hotel Listings product which it says will give hoteliers greater control of the appearance of their property’s listing on the site. With the specially designed editing tools, hotels are now able to manage and [...]
Win an internship and be mentored in TravelRave Talent Challenge
The Singapore Tourism Board, together with WITNext, this week launched the inaugural TravelRave Talent Challenge to engage youth on relevant trends and topics across the travel and tourism industry. The TravelRave Talent Challenge is a regional youth competition open to all 18-25 year olds. The [...]
WIT Australia: Forget food, sell space, romance and you’ll be right, mate
This time last week, I was stepping off a Virgin Australia flight in Cairns. There was a fresh breeze in the air, the sky was blue and the sea even bluer. Winter’s the best time to be up in tropical north Queensland, I reckon.Cairns today is a very different place to the one I first visited in the [...]
Kaufer: Next big thing is restaurants and Google (not Facebook) keeps me awake
For someone who runs one of he world’s most global companies – it has websites in 27 countries worldwide (20 different languages) and 75% of its traffic now comes from outside the US – TripAdvisor’s founder Stephen Kaufer sheepishly admits he hasn’t been to Asia.“I travel a lot but I hav [...]
WIT promotes new customer engagement technologies
Web in Travel, the region’s leading travel distribution, marketing and technology conference, is using several new customer engagement tools with its delegates.“Since we are a conference that’s a lot about discussing ‘the next big thing’ and encouraging innovation, it is important that as [...]
